Slide buckle



Nov.s,1932. y M HODGE 1,887,096

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Feb.- 17, 1952 Cil Patented Nov. 8, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT o`l=rlcujv ROBERT J'. HODGE, 0F WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN.BUCLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 1A CORPORATION SLIDE BUCKLEY l Application filed February 171982., Sera1,No.`59 8,505.

My invention relates to an improvement in slide-buckles designed particularly to be used on the straps of overalls, but not so limited, the object being to produce, at a low cost for manufacture, a simple, attractive, easily-operated, and efficient buckle, designed with particular reference to preventing the lateral displacement, and hence the buckling, of the stra-p on which it is mounted.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a slide-buckle having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of my improved buckle, showing also an overallstrap and a portion of the garment to which it is attached;

Fig. 2 is a view thereof in side elevation;

Fig. 3 is a view thereof in vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a detached view in front elevation of the buckle;

Fig. 5 is a similar view of a modification thereof;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the shoulderstrap, showing the folding of its edges to ride in the retaining-notches of the buckleframe.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, the upper and lower bars or sides 10 and 11 of the rectangular buckle-frame are provided upon the inner faces or edges of their ends with retaining-notches or grooves 12, those of one bar facing those of the other. Thatever the particular construction of the buckle-frame and whatever its design, these grooves or notches, however produced, will face each other at the opposite ends of the buckle-frame and be adapted in capacity to measura-bly receive the edges of the strap 13 upon which it is mounted. As shown, the edges of the strap are folded inwardly upon themselves to form a bead-like edge 14, which is stitched as at 15. These reinforced edges enter the oppositely-facing notches 12 in the buckle-frame to a. greater or less extent, and so anchor the edges that the strap is in large measure deterred from lateral dsplacement and buckling, which is not only objectionable in appearance but is also likely to be uncomfortable to the wearer if too much. puckered, and also likely to delay the adjustment of the strap inthe buckle, since preliminary to that, the strap must-be smoothed out in the buckle-frame. f

" My improved buckle-frame is, however,

not limited to use with straps having. their edges folded and stitched as illustrated in Fig. 6, or similarly thickened at their edges, Y

but may be used with any straps.

As herein shown, the buckle is made of Wire and has its upper and lower bars 1() and 11 initially set inward symmetrically in the plane of the frame to produce the-retainingwere, of the gripping-edges of the side-bars,

permit the edges of the slide to have full contact therewith through their length.

The buckle in question is also provided with a slide-bar 17 having its ends bent to form loops 18, which embrace the end-bars 19 of the frame, upon which end-bars they slide. As shown, also, the slide-bar 17 is struck up as at 20 to form gripping-teeth or projections for better taking hold of the webbing.

The buckle is secured to the garment 21 by an anchoring-strap 23, which is passed over the slide 17 of the buckle, both ends of the said strap being secured to the garment 21 by stitching 22. The strap 13, which is permalnently secured in the usual way at one end to the back of the. garment, is passed under the upper bar 10 of the buckle, then forward and downward over the slide-bar 17 of the buckle, and then downward under the lower bar 11 thereof. The draft upon the strap 13 tends to lift the entire buckle and draw its lower bar 11 upward toward the slide-bar 17 and so clamp the strap 13 between them. The detailed construction of the buckle-frame may be varied and still fall within my invention, if

The notches as thus produced have" the frame is provided with oppositely-located complementary retaining-notches or grooves.

I claim:

In a slide-buckle, the combination with a substantially-rectangular frame having two parallel side-bars having inner grippingedges and tWo parallel end-bars, the former being substantially straight and having their ends shaped to form clearance notches having sharp rectangular corners set back of the inner gripping-edges of the said side-bars; of a slide having gripping-edges mounted upon the said end-bars for sliding movement thereupon, and an overall strap having thickened edges which, When the buckle is thread- 'ed7 enter the respective clearance-notches in the frame and permit the faces of the strap between its said edges to lie smoothly between the gripping inner edges of the side-bars and the gripping-edges of the slide as they may be brought into play by the draft uponthe strap.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

ROBERT J. HODGE. 

